Manuscripts from the Military Historical Institute in Prague

In 2025, Bedřich Smetana's autograph and a collection of Antonín Dvořák's autographs, including complete scores as well as sketches and drafts, were digitized from the manuscript collection of the Music Department of the National Library of the Czech Republic. Some of these materials come from the estate of conductor Václav Talich.

In 2025, the Museum of the Jindřichův Hradec Region provided access to six more manuscripts. This is a collection of Czech prayer books from the first half of the 19th century, with homogeneous content. The extensive codex Rk 108 also contains a number of religious songs. In some cases, these are apparently copies of printed works (Rk 105, Rk 111). Manuscript Rk 109 is accompanied by eight full-page illustrations.

In 2025, the Regional Museum in Teplice digitised three manuscripts containing records of theological lectures given by students from the Cistercian monastery in Osek during their studies at the Archbishop's Seminary in Prague between 1718 and 1751. Among the lecturers were, for example, Jerome Besnecker, the abbot of Osek, or Benedikt Bayer, the provost of the monastery in Doksany.

In 2025, the Museum of the Brno Region digitised three more medieval manuscripts from the library of the Benedictine Abbey in Rajhrad. All of them date from the beginning of the 15th century from the Czech lands, as evidenced, among other things, by Czech-language glosses. The manuscripts include collections of sermons (shelf numbers R 372, R 382) and an interpretation of the Gospel of St John by Nicholas of Gorran (R 375).

In 2025, the National Museum Library provided online access to the summer part of the Minorite antiphonary of Czech origin (shelf number XV A 1). The manuscript is dated to the period around 1380 on the basis of its decoration, and the oficium for the feast of St Wenceslas, which is recorded in it, represents one of the basic sources for understanding its medieval form in the context of the Minorite Order.

A martyrology from the first half of the 14th century (shelf number M II 100) was digitised from the collections of the Olomouc Research Library in 2025. The manuscript was probably intended for a monastery of the Minorite order and, according to the obituary inscriptions in the margins of the pages, was certainly used in the Czech environment in the Middle Ages, perhaps in Olomouc, where it is evidenced in the 15th century.

The Regional Museum in Litomyšl has made two autographs of Magdalena Dobromila Rettig available online from its collections. The more extensive one (R-207) contains parts of the text Mladá hospodyňka v domácnosti jak sobě počínati má, aby své i manželovy spokojenosti došla, published in Prague in 1840, and documents the author's creative writing style, including corrections and additions to the text (the autograph dates from 1833). The shorter text (R-206) is a German-language autobiography. The manuscript is incomplete or incompletely preserved, yet these notes are the most comprehensive biography of Magdalena Dobromila Rettig.

Four volumes from the Prague Conservatory collections were digitised in 2025. The oldest of these was written in 1718 and contains Alessandro Scarlatti's Il trionfo dell'onore; according to the information on the decorated binding, it was written for Jan Václav of Gallas. The other three date from the late 18th century and are a piano excerpt from Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's Cosi fan tutte and a cantata by Leopold Koželuh for the coronation of Leopold II.

In 2025, two more manuscripts were made available online from the collections of the Town Museum and Gallery Polička. Under the shelf number K 127 is a copy of the work Zdravá rada lékařská, authored by Jan Tonsoris. The text has been printed repeatedly since 1771 and this copy is probably an adaptation of one of the printed editions. Under the shelf number K 165 are the notes of Tomáš Sýkora, a tailor from Polička, which relate to the years 1666-1794, but the vast majority of them inform about the events of the 18th century.

The Regional Museum in Louny has made five more manuscripts from the last quarter of the 18th to the middle of the 19th century available online from its collections in 2025. Most of them are prayer books (three in Czech and one in German), there is also a copy of a medical work Vysvětlení onich mocných, užitečných a hojitedlných distilovaných olejův (shelf number S 4919).